Em McBee

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong:

www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

Get Out

"I’m sure mistakes were made... I would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake.“ -Sahil Lavingia, an ex-DOGE programmer who built an AI tool to identify VA contracts to cut

We obtained records showing how an ex-DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill.

“I would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says,” he said.

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

An article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable", posted on Medium. There is a soft paywall asking you to sign in, covering most of the article. Screenshot found on Mastodon https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/114497234942335666

Charcoal and soft pastel drawing of a Bernese mountain dog looking to the left with her tongue out. Head and shoulders in frame

Trying to stay sane by drawing more pups… this is my best girl Stevie Nicks #art #drawing #charcoal #pastel

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RIP, Roy Ayers

WSJ Breaking News 2h ago The Trump administration is cancelling roughly $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University over allegations of antisemitism

You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time

I've got some #darkart to share! All via Micron 005 fineliners in my crappy sketchbook.

Painting of a woman with short purple hair, round gold glasses, and a blue/grey/green shirt collar, the rest of her body not in view. Behind her is a solid green/seafoam/mint background.

Closeup detail of the face/glasses on the same painting

Van Gogh inspired self portrait, 11x14” acrylic on canvas. First attempt at glasses, but I still really love the color palette on this one.

#art #painting #acrylic #selfportrait

I love that he did that. I like to imagine he spent 50 years with it gnawing at him that he burned such a great title on his first awful student film or whatever. Only to realize what he truly wanted to say with it much later

Lisa Sterle's incredible Ten of Swords tarot card from the Modern Witch tarot, depicting a woman with long hair lying on a jagged landscape under an ominous sky. She's stuck full of swords and looking at her phone. It's captioned EVERYTHING IS FINE.

Love the Gizzy one!

Emily Austin @emilyraustin We went from kneeling during the National Anthem to a Halftime Show showcasing USA Flag colors! We're so back 8:38 PM • Feb 9, 2025

George @BehizyTweets A few years ago, they were endorsing burning the USA flag, and now Samuel L. Jackson is Uncle Sam at the Super Bowl. Hollywood is desperately trying to get America to pay attention to them again. 8:30 PM • Feb 9, 2025

Omar Navarro @RealOmarNavarro FINALLY a non woke Satanic halftime show Kendrick Lamar is showing off the American Flag I LOVE THIS 8:42 PM • Feb 9, 2025

Svishtakrit @svishtakrit We are so back... finally, NFL joins in celebrating US Flag instead of disrespecting during half time... pardon me if he said something offensive, but the flag display by the performers was amazing.. I didn't pay attention to lyrics... 8:37 PM • Feb 9, 2025

way funnier than the conservatives who hated Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show are the conservatives who thought he was doing the ultimate patriotic ode to America

Fun fact Google doesn't give you AI suggestions if you swear

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reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits New research reveals Google's reCAPTCHA system primarily serves as a tracking tool, generating billions in revenue while offering minimal protection against bots.

“…Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots.”

Drawing on newsprint paper, clipped to a draing board of a woman with shoulder-length hair, round gold glasses, and a black tank top. Color tones range from bright lime green, dark blue, gold, and medium orange, as well as black from charcoal. She is looking at the viewer with an unsmiling but open expression.

Self portrait from life, 18x24” on newsprint. Making a mess with chalk pastels feels so cathartic. Love you all - take care of each other 💚

#art #charcoal #pastel #drawing

People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. —David Lynch

I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

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RIP David Lynch

David Lynch saying one day the sadness will end. R.I.P.

An image showing a postcard and sticker featuring a red fire poppy and a California dogface butterfly, both endemic species found only in Southern California. The proceeds will be donated to LA Food Bank, California Community Foundation, Pasadena Humane Society, and the California Fire Foundation.

🌸 CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE RELIEF FUNDRAISER 🌸
I will be donating the proceeds of my fire poppy & California dogface butterfly stickers and postcards to organizations helping out the people of Los Angeles who are displaced and have been affected by the fires. 🔗 below! Reshares are immensely appreciated❤️

Wow. Impeccable

A smudgy black and white charcoal drawing of a Bernese mountain dog puppy. She is looking at the viewer with her mouth open with fluffed-up ears, like she’s smiling and waiting for a treat. #art #charcoal #drawing #sketch #doodle

Feeling overwhelmed by the constant, completely-avoidable tragedies around the world caused by greed, hate, and bigotry soooo here’s a little charcoal doodle of my good friend’s sweet puppy. Meet Ludacris

A watercolor coat of arms featuring three stylised pairs of testicles

just found out there was a medieval italian guy called bartolomeo coglioni which means "bartholomew balls" and his coat of arms was three pairs of balls and his war cry was "coglia! coglia! coglia!" which means "balls! balls! balls!"